Cape Town meeting launches fellowship programme open to African youth leaders. Get involved and propose someone from your neighbourhood!

For Zimbabweans who cross into South Africa in search of work, robbery, rape and extortion at the border is just the beginning of their problems. Khadija Sharife meets a ‘rightless’ underclass who are both exploited and scapegoated, simply for wanting to feed their children

In its search to organise all the world's information, the US tech-giant is turning to Africans to help put their cities on the map.

Tunisians are waking up to what's next as many try to get in their excuses for compromises they made under the Ben Ali regime, writes Nicholas Norbrook from Tunis.

We've suggested 11 simple ideas that could make a real change for the better in the new year. Now it's your turn.

The Africa Report's Tayo Fagbule joined Nigeria's Know Your Constitution initiative volunteers as they handed out free copies of the constitution in Lagos

From the Seychelles to Liberia, African countries are creating financial centres that demand little or no taxation. Here is a run-down of the places to secret away money from the taxman

An estimated 32 million people will head to the polls on 31 October in Tanzania, Côte d'Ivoire and Niger. But in Guinea, voters will have to hang on for another week.

The government plans big celebrations for Abuja, but in Ibadan, Tayo Fagbule says people are more subdued and pensive about the challenges that the future holds.

Our probe into the World Bank’s record on racial diversity made the Bank change its website.